~ scanncut enthusiast, applelover53 youtuber and blogger

Flourishes

I posted a video recently giving ideas I had planned for future videos, I’ve had lots of feedback saying you are looking forward to them and also several suggestions from you asking for flourishes and doilies.

So over the weekend I had some time to try out both and will be doing videos in the future but I thought I would show you a couple of the flourishes I designed in. Inkscape and cut with the ScanNCut.

These were designed at about 10 inches wide but I reduced them to about 6 inches wide once I had the design on the machine, see how very thin some of the sections are and the ScanNCut, cut them perfectly.

Brilliant news, I did email the seller but they said they didn’t want to have to go back and edit all their files, so thats why i did the video as i didn’t want anyone to not be able to open the cutting files when there is such a simple fix.

A big thank you for all your hard work. I am having so much fun trying out all your videos. I have just finished a swirl with flowers and managed to put a fancy border around it. Can not wait to get on with some more.

This is beautiful, but I am having problems cutting swirls. I have been using the machine for a week now, and have learned I need to use repositionable glue to keep my card on the mat but the swirls are either not cutting evenly, all the way through in some areas or they are catching and tearing. Also there seem to be a lot of rough edges also.

The problem with things like flourishes and swirls is they are very delicate, sometimes it easier to have the speed set fast and on others people seem to get good results if they slow it down, I personally leave mine on speed 5 all the time and don’t have any problems. It does also depend on the card some is more fibrous than others all these things affect how a design will cut.